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Range uncertainties are simulated by generating two copies of the phantom with each voxel's mass density upscaled or downscaled by 3.5%. Two clinical plans for a leg sarcoma case and a post\u2010mastectomy breast case were replanned with MBRT with 2 optimization methods: once without robust optimization and once with robust to both setup and range uncertainties.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Dose discrepancies between the percent depth doses of density\u2010scaled phantoms and the nominal phantom were found to be much larger for electron beams than photons with maximum differences of 6.9% (6 MeV) and 5.5% (20 MeV) versus 1.6% (6 MV) of the maximum dose. In both clinical cases, the region of largest dose discrepancy between the range and nominal scenarios was found to be along the electron's beam path, starting immediately downstream from the target and within a few cm. Even without robust optimization, dose\u2010volume histograms (DVHs) of all relevant structures were not meaningfully degraded under range scenarios. In the breast plan, the ipsilateral lung's V20Gy increased by 1.9% under the worst range scenario. No substantial change in the DVHs of range scenarios were observed between the robustly and non\u2010robustly optimized\u00a0plan.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Conclusion<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>In the two investigated cases, robustness to range uncertainties was not improved in robustly optimized versus non\u2010robustly optimized plans. 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